Autonomous Trucks Being Tested on the Open Road

Considering there are approximately 276 million vehicles operating in the U.S., around 15.5 million of which are trucks, safely more than 10 billion tons of freight continues to be a priority. Daimler Trucks North America, which recently acquired Torc Robotics, has focused efforts on developing and testing automated trucks. The new fleet of SAE Level 4 intent technology has begun its decent on public roads after extensive safety validation on a closed-loop track. “As we pair Daimler’s ex…